Re: LibHTTPD?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 11, 2005, at 13:35, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> LibHTTPD seems nice and simple to bind to Lua.

Yes, it looks that way. Plus, one can simply register a C function to 
handle the content generation for a given URL pattern: 
httpdAddCContent()

> But I wonder whether it'd be better to have as much of it in Lua.

Well, Lua itself doesn't do sockets. So you could think of LibHTTPD as 
a more specialize version of LuaSocket. In other words, LibHTTPD takes 
care of the server side socket and the concurrent dispatching of 
requests and responses. Lua can then be solely used to generate the 
dynamic content itself without worrying too much about concurrency as 
this is taken care of by the embedding LibHTTPD library. Another side 
effect of using LibHTTPD is that any static content can be handled by 
that library directly as well. One less thing to do :)

Cheers

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